But seriously, he has no formal qualifications, is a convicted criminal and drug trafficker at that. I think schools have a big enough drug problem.

Lack of formal qualifications could well be a bonus as the Education faculties are the prime propaganda enforcers on any campus (they are also the lowest regarded in terms of academic rigour and scholarship). Education needs massive reform and the educationalists are the problem and a hindrance to any solution, and they should not be involved in rectifying the mess which themselves have caused and continue to protect. However, I don't doubt that you are right about this particular individual.

There appears to be two sets of standards whereby a teacher in the education system would find it hard to find employment with a criminal record but it is acceptable to appoint a parliamentary with an unknown past to the public till now, to administer the Education Department of New South Wales.

Morris Iemma has drawn the line in the sand and the benchmark to which individuals who have a criminal record equivalent can now aspire to join the Labor party.

I wonder what the election result would have been if he had of announced his apppointment before, rather than later?

The conflict of interest for the Australia people and citizens of New South Wales, is with such a politically sensitive past, it does not give much room for this new minister to object to Morris Iemma with his reliance on mateship to keep him in the job versus current public opinion of his appointment.

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